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    Beach House Baking: An Endless Summer of Delicious Desserts
    Beach House Baking: An Endless Summer of Delicious Desserts
    Beach House Baking: An Endless Summer of Delicious Desserts
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    Beach House Baking: An Endless Summer of Delicious Desserts

    By Lei Shishak and Chau Vuong

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    In Beach House Baking: An Endless Summer of Delicious Desserts, pastry chef Lei Shishak shares her most popular recipes for morning treats, cupcakes, crisps, cookies, pies, ice cream sandwiches, frozen pops, and beverages from her celebrated Sugar Blossom Bake Shop in the charming beach town of San Clemente, California.

    At her shop, Chef Lei serves up familiar treats that offer so much more than a sweet dining experience. Inspired by her beach town location and her love of the sand-and-surf lifestyle, she creates high-quality, made-from-scratch desserts that transport you to the islands and resorts you’ve always hoped to visit. Get ready to hit the beach through one hundred recipes, including:

    Daybreak Muffins
    Light as a Kite Lemon Meringue Cupcakes
    Coco Hut Macaroons
    Red, Red Wine Cupcakes
    Sweet and Salty Beach Bod Brittle
    Nantucket Ice Cream Sandwiches
    Tropical Tea
    And more!

    Lei’s recipes in Beach House Baking are designed to take you on an island vacation, turning the task of baking into a virtual journey to a beachside paradise, filled with the sounds and aromas of the places you can go to just get away from it all!

    Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateMay 20, 2014
    ISBN9781629141381
    Beach House Baking: An Endless Summer of Delicious Desserts

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      Beach House Baking - Lei Shishak

      morning treats

      Many of us who live by the beach are early risers. To get our bodies and minds going so early in the day, morning nourishment is crucial. And, if you’re like me, you’re hungry the second you wake up.

      While it would be lovely to have a complete breakfast every morning, most days I just don’t have the time or desire to create a breakfast buffet. After all, less time inside means more time spent at the beach! So I’ve created some simple and delicious breakfast treats that are short on preparation and long on flavor. In fact, many of them can be made the day before so you can enjoy them as soon as you wake up.

      All of the treats in this chapter are delicious on their own, but if you need something more to satiate your appetite, you can pair them with other breakfast items. For instance, my Aged Cheddar, Bacon, and Scallion Biscuits (page 15) are delectable with poached eggs and hollandaise sauce, while my Daybreak Muffins (page 12) pair perfectly with a cup of Surfer Cowboy Coffee (page 33). If you need something more nutritious yet substantial for breakfast, try mixing peanut butter into my Beach’s Best Granola (page 11) and enjoy it with some apple slices.

      I hope these sweet and savory treats will give you a great start to your day like they do mine. If you’re not really a breakfast eater, pick one or two of these and try them. You may find it makes your mornings much brighter.

      Bountiful Blueberry Scones

      Maple Pecan Sticky Buns

      Buckwheat Wafflecakes

      Lovers’ Coffee Cake

      Beach’s Best Granola

      Daybreak Muffins

      Aged Cheddar, Bacon, and Scallion Biscuits

      Cranberry Oat Scones

      bountiful blueberry scones

      Makes 6 Scones

      The beautiful coastal state of Maine proudly boasts the wild blueberry as its state fruit. Located on Georgetown Island in Maine’s mid-coast region near Bath, Reid State Beach is often called a beach bum’s wonderland. This beach is a good place to spend some solitary time exploring tidal pools and climbing rocks at low tide. From Griffith Head, located inside the park, you can pause in awe of the majesty of Maine’s shoreline, from its sandy beaches to its carved rock formations with the churning sea in the background. I spent my college years in this picturesque state, and every time I have a bite of these buttery, blueberry-filled scones, I am filled with images of all the hidden coastal beauty this state offers.

      2 cups all-purpose flour

      ⅓ cup sugar

      1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

      1 teaspoon baking powder

      ¼ teaspoon baking soda

      ¼ teaspoon salt

      ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold

      ½ cup sour cream

      1 large egg

      2 tablespoons blueberry preserves

      1 (4.4-ounce) package blueberries

      2 teaspoons sugar for sprinkling

      1 Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil.

      2 In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Grate the cold butter into the dry ingredients on the medium holes of a cheese grater. Quickly and gently work in the butter with your fingers before the butter gets soft. Set aside the mixture.

      3 In a small bowl, whisk together the sour cream and egg until smooth. Pour over the flour and butter mixture. Use your hands to combine all the ingredients until the dough clumps together when gently squeezed. Place half the dough onto a clean, lightly floured surface. Pat into a 7-inch circle about ½-inch thick. The dough will seem a bit dry and crumbly but will come together when patted down.

      4 Spread the preserves over the top of the dough using a mini offset spatula. Add the blueberries on top of the preserves and sprinkle 1 teaspoon of sugar over the berries. Place the remaining dough over the blueberries and pat it down evenly over the fruit. Use one hand to cradle the edges while your other hand pats the dough down.

      5 Sprinkle the dough with the remaining teaspoon of sugar and cut it into 6 triangles using a sharp knife. Place on the prepared baking sheet.

      6 Bake for 20 to 22 minutes or until the tops of the scones bounce back when pressed gently. Let cool for at least 10 minutes before serving.

      I prefer to enjoy these scones chilled.

      maple pecan sticky buns

      Makes 6 buns

      There’s a beautiful view of the Pacific at the top of the street that runs by my bake shop in San Clemente. On Sunday mornings, as shoppers visit the open air farmers’ market, they are surrounded by the delicious aroma of our freshly baked cinnamon rolls. This recipe is a twist on those cinnamon rolls. The buttermilk biscuit dough bakes in the maple pecan goo, creating a sticky sweet tender breakfast bun.

      Filling

      ¼ cup light brown sugar, lightly packed

      ¼ cup sugar

      1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

      2 tablespoons Grade A medium amber maple syrup

      Sticky Topping

      1½ cups light brown sugar, lightly packed

      1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter

      6 tablespoons Grade A medium amber maple syrup

      2 tablespoons light corn syrup

      ½ cup pecans, chopped

      Dough

      ¾ cup ricotta cheese

      ¼ cup buttermilk

      ½ cup sugar

      ¼ cup (½ stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature

      2 tablespoons Grade A medium amber maple syrup

      1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

      2 cups all-purpose flour

      1 tablespoon baking powder

      ½ teaspoon salt

      ¼ teaspoon baking soda

      1 Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Place a clean cookie tray on the middle rack. Generously butter then grease a 6-cup jumbo muffin pan with pan spray.

      2 Make the filling: In a medium bowl, combine the sugars and cinnamon. Measure out the maple syrup and keep separate from the sugar-spice mixture.

      3 Make the topping: In a 1-quart saucepan, combine the brown sugar, butter, maple syrup, and corn syrup over low heat. Stir until the sugar and butter are melted. Portion half of the hot syrup into each muffin cup as evenly as possible. Set aside the remaining syrup. Sprinkle the chopped pecans on top of the syrup. Set aside the prepared pan.

      4 Make the dough: In an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix the ricotta cheese, buttermilk, sugar, butter, maple syrup, and vanilla extract on low speed until combined. Small lumps of ricotta in the batter are fine. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Mix until the dough comes together. The dough will be sticky.

      On a floured work surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle 10 x 14-inches and ¼-inch thick. Roll the rectangle so a long side is facing you.

      Using a pastry brush, paint the dough with the maple syrup. Sprinkle the sugar-spice mixture over the syrup as evenly as possible and pat it down.

      Starting at the long edge nearest you, roll up the dough jelly-roll style. Pinch the seam to seal and leave the ends open. With a sharp knife or dental floss, cut the roll into 6 equal pieces, about 1½ inches wide. (At this point, the unbaked buns can be stored for later use. See the sidebar for instructions.) Place each bun into the prepared muffin pan.

      5 Place the muffin pan in the oven on the cookie tray. Bake approximately 25 to 28 minutes or until they are golden brown and the centers are firm when gently pressed.

      6 Remove pan from the oven. Immediately and carefully invert onto a serving tray. Let buns cool for 10 minutes, pour remaining syrup over the buns, and serve

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